cute 🙂

figure('Units','normalized','OuterPosition',[.10 .10 .80 .80])
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hAxis(1) = subplot(1,2,1); 
surf(peaks(31));
axis tight;
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hAxis(2) = subplot(1,2,2);
surf(membrane(1,15));
axis tight;
%
linkprop(hAxis,'View'); % link the view
view([-54 26])

Now, just press the “Rotate 3D” toolbar button, and have both axes rotating together.

Thanks for taking the time to point out these inconsistencies in the behavior and documentation. We will clean up the documentation to make things more consistent. We agree that the current state of the view transformation is a bit of a mess. We are keeping it around for compatibility, and are considering your suggestion that we should provide a documented, reliable, and consistent way to work with view transformation matrices.

@Eric – these functions are related to the article in the sense that they also deal with a 4×4 affine transformation matrix. They can be used in cases when you know in advance the requested rotation/scaling/translation amounts. My article dealt with the undocumented feature of extracting the current matrix from the axes, and af far as I can tell this is not supported by makehgtform and hgtransform.